Global capitalism is foreclosing on our future by tearing apart the fabric of our homes, communities, and ecosystems. While our resources go to bail out Wall Street, corporations are destabilizing our climate, fouling our waters, selling us food that makes us sick, and destroying the very life-giving systems that we depend on.

Following the Arab people who led their nations to a new spring, we stand with the 99% who are bringing on the American Autumn. Join us on Wednesday, October 12 at 7am at Occupy SF– the Federal Reserve– in San Francisco!

While the US Government Stalls in Cancun, Community-based Solutions are Cooling the Planet

December 7, 2010

3:30-5:30 pm

17th and Folsom, San Francisco’s Mission District

Frontline communities, those first and most impacted by the climate crisis, are addressing the root causes of climate disruption and leading the way toward a healthy, safe, and just future.

Join us to work on a healthy solution in the Bay Area.

Push for a public park in the Mission on publicly-owned land currently used as a parking lot. We’ll build a garden, celebrate community-based activism, and enjoy speakers, theater, and music!

Featuring the headRush crew!

More information about the 1000 Cancuns Day of Action on December 7 on Grassroots Solutions for Climate Justice: North America.

MEDIA ADVISORY
December 2, 2010
December 7 Day of Action:
Grassroots Communities in North America Show That
There are Alternative Solutions to Climate Change!

More than 25 coordinated grassroots events planned across the U.S. and Canada,
part of 1000 Cancuns Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

Contact: Jen Soriano, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, 415-572-7154, jen@ggjalliance.org

WHAT: On December 7, with the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Cancun approaching
an end, grassroots organizations across the world will be taking the future of the planet into
their own hands.  More than 25 coordinated events will take place in the U.S. and Canada as
part of La Vía Campesina’s call for 1000 Cancuns for climate justice worldwide.  All of the
actions will have one common goal: to oppose carbon market schemes that prolong our
addiction to fossil fuels, and to lift up local solutions that are already reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and cooling our planet.
Actions include a mass action to protest the 710 highway expansion in LA,  an action at City
Hall in Antonio to pressure city council to turn their Mission Verde resolution into a binding law
for green jobs creation and clean energy transition, and an action in San Francisco to turn a
publicly-owned parking lot into a community garden.  Events include people’s assemblies in
Canada and educational events on climate justice at universities and community organizations
across the U.S.

WHEN: December 7, 2010

WHERE: 12 cities in the U.S and 16 regions across Canada – click here for the complete list
Regions include: Albuquerque, the Bay Area, Chicago, the Gulf Coast, Los Angeles, Madison, New
York, Olympia, Providence, San Antonio, Burlington, Washington DC, Calgary, Charlottetown,
Brockville, Edmonton, Halifax, London, Peterborough, Regina, Saint John, Saskatoon, and Toronto.

WHY: “Our communities are on the frontlines of climate devastation.  We are also at the
crossroads of the climate crisis and the economic crisis,” says Jill Johnston of Southwest
Workers Union in San Antonio, TX.  “We know from experience that the UN is not considering
what we really need to survive.  Policies like REDD and REDD+ are more of the same pollution
profiteering that got us into this mess in the first place.  Our communities and the planet
urgently need real solutions.  We are taking action to show that grassroots solutions are real
and viable solutions to the global climate crisis.”

Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan of Movement Generation in Oakland, CA adds, “Last year in
Copenhagen delegates called on the Obama administration to adopt reductions in greenhouse
gas emissions that would protect human health for frontline communities in the U.S. Instead, we
got the Copenhagen ‘Discord’.   What we need is for the United States and Canada to drop this
ineffective document and embrace the Cochabamba People’s Agreement instead, which provides
guidelines for rapid emissions reductions and a framework for addressing the climate crisis with
solutions based in human rights and the Rights of Mother Earth.”

La Via Campesina International launched this call to action leading into the climate talks in Cancun.
There will be more than 100 actions around the world, throughout Latin America, Asia, and Europe as
well as in the United States and Canada.! The actions include people’s assemblies and forums in Korea,
Uruguay, Brazil, Nepal, Turkey, and mass actions in India, Argentina, Indonesia, El Salvador, the
Philippines, and Mexico.! All together these actions and events will bring together an estimated 1 million
people.!  This people-power is nothing short of the power that will be necessary to bring just and
sustainable solutions to scale to resolve the climate crisis.! In this context, the UN negotiations can be
seen in true perspective: as a narrow slice of the climate change field – and specifically as the
multinational corporate-driven arena whose negotiations are more oriented toward saving fossil fuel
companies and the neo-liberal economic system rather than making the hard decisions it will take to
create social and environmental justice.

For more information:
La Via Campesina International Peasant Movement: 1000 Cancuns Worldwide
1000 Cancuns List of North American Actions and Resources about 1000 Cancuns
Canada – Week of People’s Assemblies
Indigenous Environmental Network Red Road to Cancun
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Rhythms of Resilience:
3 Years of Cultivating Earth Democracy!

Be a part of Movement Generation’s first ever community celebration: After three years of groundbreaking work through our Justice and Ecology Project we’re ready to have some fun.  We would love to have you join us!

Friday, November 5, 2010
6pm-12am
Humanist Hall (390  27th Street,  Oakland)
Sliding Scale – $50 – $150

6-8pm:  dinner & program
8-10pm:  live musical performance
10-midnight:  live DJ’s – DJLN and Lucha Grande

Live Performances with: Invincible, Seasunz and J.Bless, and Los Nadies
Keynote Speaker: Adrienne Maree Brown

Host Committee: Adrienne Maree Brown, Tracy Burt, Larisa Casillas, Melanie Cervantes, Alicia Garza, Mike Gast, Ben Griesinger, Dave Henson, Taj James, Annie Leonard, Laura Loescher, Denise Perry, Mark Randazzo, Carmen Rojas, Jill Shenker, Zak Sinclair, Mari Rose Taruc, Mei-ying Williams, and Steve Williams.

Register by October 18th to hold your seat. We expect this event to sell out – so buy your tickets now!